Festive Pop Culture Fisking: Iggy Azalea

Pop culture snobs, not that I know anyone like that, they get a bad rap--see what I did there?--for sneering at the vacuous garbage which passes for music and whatnot these days, but the truth is that they are right.  Objectively correct.  Iggy Azalea sucks ass.  So does Beyonce.  Nicki Minaj.  One Direction.  Justin Bieber.  Taylor Swift.  It's all shit.  Empty, stupid, pointless, but designed from the ground up to sell, to satiate those who don't know any better.  To appeal to the shallow vanity of consumers who have never even considered that something doesn't have to be so fucking dumb.  There are great musicians out there.  There are good musicians out there.  There are interesting musicians out there.  Writers.  Artists.  That stuff could be pop culture, but that would require exposure, and maybe any particular performer might not be everyone's favorite, so the quick money wouldn't be there.  Can't have that.  Pop culture must be a commodity in our culture.  Expression is not always an easy sell.  What's the solution?  Do it yourself.  Fuck Iggy Azalea and the rest of the shit.  Learn to play.  Write a song.  Or a book.  Or a poem.  Paint a picture.  Do it for yourself.  Art is a language.  Learn it.  Teach it.  Repeat.